Nina Katchadourian’s Hidden Connections

Al Taylor, Pet Names , 1991, from the Morgan collection. Photo: Glenn Steigelman, Courtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum Almost 70 works from the Morgan Library's wunderkammer collection have been organized by artist Nina Katchadourian in her new show, "Uncommon Denominator." Her own work is installed alongside diaries, maps, a UFO photograph, a seaweed specimen, bookbinder tools, bric-a-brac, and various arcana. Dates range from 3,400 BCE to the present. Sections of the show are accompanied by short statements by Katchadourian, 54, about visual coincidence, record-keeping, mending, how one kind of art might refer to another kind of art, geography, and, crucially, how to survive at sea. The whole calls to mind Jorge Louis Borges's taxonomy of fictitious animals, organized into numerous categories, including "those that belong to the Emperor," "embalmed ones," and "those that tremble as if they were mad." Katchadourian's phenomenological exercise similarly encourages free-floating slippages in thinking, the euphoric discovery of hidden connections. Katchadourian is something of an insider outsider, who has shown all over the world but not a lot of late in New York. She's a conjuror conceptualist with a tinkerer's touch, eccentric and cerebral. Born to a Swedish mother who grew up in Finland… Read full this story

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